Wow. And wow again. Deathless explores the biggest ideas of all.

Horror and bright hope twine together in this powerful saga of Death and love.   Valente’s prose is sonorous, yet not ponderous, and certainly not oblivious to the profane.
Her tremendously strong female main character experiences the deepest issues of life. With the Slavic folklore of ( Read more... )

This is a difficult book to review because I'm certain it's part of a series, and I haven't read the other books. Not that the author doesn't attempt to gloss it with memories, etc., but I had the distinct feeling that there was more a reader could know about the characters and their relationships than was explained here.

Even worse, now I'm ( Read more... )

Divorce lawyers, dykes*, faggots and rational people everywhere celebrate the decision of U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker that California's "Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation."  @p111.   You can read the ( Read more... )

The towering cliff of Undone Things To Worry About crashed onto my head within hours of my return from Wiscon.

A Wiscon Post will follow, once I gather the 4 or 5 places (notebooks, PDA, loose paper) I made notes, and finish it up.

Rachel Moss and her ilk suck.   I was uncomfortably reminded of the worst of the worst 6th grade "humor":  I am so ( Read more... )